Please be advised that this unit includes professional experience learning which has pre-placement provisions and associated placement expenses as detailed on the School of Health and Human Sciences Professional Experience page. Failure to comply with these pre-placement requirements will result in you being unable to undertake the stipulated professional experience learning.

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Unit aim

Integrates and utilises the knowledge, concepts and skills developed over the entire sequence of undergraduate study. Students are required to demonstrate their ability to practice at the level of a beginning registered midwife. Interview preparation is undertaken.

Unit content

Meeting the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia [NMBA] Midwife Standards for Practice

Quality improvement

Preparation for employment

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

demonstrate evidence of achieving midwifery competency based upon the NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice including all practice requirements of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council [ANMAC]

Knowledge of a discipline

Lifelong learning

2

assess, plan and implement safe midwifery care of women within their childbearing episode

Knowledge of a discipline

Lifelong learning

Communication and social skills

Cultural competence

3

critically reflect own performance when seeking employment

Knowledge of a discipline

Lifelong learning

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

demonstrate evidence of achieving midwifery competency based upon the NMBA Midwife Standards for Practice including all practice requirements of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council [ANMAC]

GA4:
Knowledge of a discipline

GA5:
Lifelong learning

assess, plan and implement safe midwifery care of women within their childbearing episode

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